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True Crime Couple

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Join married couple Kay and John as they cover some of the lesser known true crime cases. In this bi-weekly podcast, Kay presents the case to both the audience and John at the same time, so they can react together. We pride ourselves on the research we conduct and the respect we show to victims. We hope you enjoy!

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Episodes

  1. Episode 243: Lorraine Kirkley | What Was Left Behind

    In a quiet suburban neighborhood just at the turn of the 21st century a husband came home to find his garage door left open, all the lights on. When he walked inside he found what could only be described as one of the strangest crime scenes… and his wife missing Sources:...

  2. Episode 242: The Murder of Devon Guzman

    When the body of Devon Guzman was discovered by her friends the morning following her disappearance the police of Easton, PA had a difficult case ahead of them as nothing was as it seemed in this case and almost no one was to be trusted. Sponsors Collective Get compounded GLP-1s for $59 a month...

  3. Episode 241: Mandy Lemaire | Kidnapped in Alaska

    Along the Copper River in south-central Alaska exist tiny outposts and towns that are scattered along its banks. They are communities that have learned to both love and revere its presence. One of those very places was Tazlina, a tiny village of 421 people (1991). Tazlina, the residents thought,...

  4. Episode 240: Sandra McGee Steppuhn and Suzanne Nixon | Secrets Revealed

    In the fall of 2015 a secret would be unearthed that would bring the detectives of Monterey, CA back to another case they had worked on just about 33 years prior. Sponsors: Instant Hydration INSTANTHYDRATION.com/TCC and use our promo code TCC for over 40% off your first subscription order…

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  5. Episode 239: Elizabeth Ennen | What the Video Revealed

    15 year old Elizabeth Ennen's parents wanted her to begin taking on more responsibility. For a teenager, babysitting seemed like the perfect place to start. On a cold January night in 2011, Elizabeth took a job watching two young children, but she never came home. She had done a wonderful job and...

  6. Episode 238: Latrese Curtis | The I-540 Murder

    During the Tuesday morning commute of January 8, 2008 motorist traveling a stretch of I-540 also known as the 'Raleigh Outer Loop' were shocked to find a body on the side of the road. The investigation that would follow would provide many suspects, all with motives that could have potentially led...

  7. Episode 237: Jessica Carpenter | On the Street Where You Live

    When Jessica Carpenter was found murdered in her home on August 4, 2000 investigators searched for answers in what proved to be a very complicated case. As they did, rumors spread throughout the neighborhood, suspicions reached the people closest to the victim, and every lead seemed to raise more...

  8. Episode 236: Traci Todd | Missing in Chicago

    On September 14, 2000, a concerned neighbor called 911 after hearing sounds of a violent fight in the apartment next door. Unable to gain entry after no one buzzed them into the building, responding officers eventually left, a decision they would later regret. What followed was the disappearance…

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  9. Episode 235: Joann and Alex Katrinak | The Conclusion: Part III

    Join John and I as we discuss the final part in our series on the murders of Joann and Alex Katrinak. Trigger Warning: This episode includes violence and the death of children under the age of one. Sources: Newspapers.com Access to archived newspaper editions from the Durham Sun, Morning Call…

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  10. Episode 234: Joann and Alex Katrinak | The Discovery: Part II

    In today's episode we continue to discuss the case of Joann and Alex Katrinak. Part III will be made available this Sunday and our final Patreon episode for June will be released the following Tuesday. Trigger warning: This case involves violence against a child under one. Sources:...

  11. Episode 233: Joann and Alex Katrinak | The Disappearance: Part I

    In the quiet borough of Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, the days leading up to Christmas in 1994 should have been filled with the familiar comforts of the season. Instead, an unsettling silence settled over a neighborhood when a young mother and her infant son seemingly vanished without a trace. Their...

  12. Episode 232: Judith Johnson and Brooke Sutton | Hidden in Plain Sight

    The stillness of the hot June morning in Barberton, OH was broken by the creaking of floorboards beneath the small feet of a six year old girl. She was unsure of what had happened or what she had suffered, she just knew she was scared. As she searched the home she was in, the brutality of the...

  13. Episode 231: Suzanne Harrison, Gena Turner, and Bryan Boone | Before and After "The Kids"

    If I were to tell someone from Wood County Texas to close their eyes and try to imagine what the tiny town of Hawkins, which sits at the intersections of Highway 80 and Farm Road 14 in the south east corner of the county, looked like in 1986 they would not have to use their imagination. Moving…

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  14. Episode 230: Dawnia Dacosta | Riding with the Devil

    After a late night church service Dawnia Dacosta began the familiar half and hour ride home. She had done the drive so many times she could have done it with her eyes closed. But as she cruised down I95 she felt her car sputter then slow. She had run out of gas. As she eased onto the shoulder…

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  15. Episode 229: Lee Ann Smith Mangrum | Where the Water Lies

    The stillness of a warm September morning in the South was broken by something that didn’t belong: a bright red Jeep, abandoned and half-submerged in the murky edge of a quiet creek. Not far from it, drifting in the same dark water, was a young mother of two. What should have been a peaceful…

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  16. Episode 228: Kaci Woody | Trapped in the Web

    The danger of a predator that stalks their victims online, the one that moves silently through glowing screens, is that they use cunning to trap those they prey upon. They study the patterns of their victims, learn their rhythm of life through late night posts and quiet confession. To them...

  17. Episode 227: Joel Kirkpatrick | Screams in the Night

    Two screams pierced the silent, unseasonably warm and windy night of October 13, 1997 in Lawrenceville, Illinois. The first, was that of 10 year old Joel Kirkpatrick as he desperately sought help against the person who had entered his room in the black of night and had attacked him with a knife....

  18. Episode 226: The Shakespearean Tragedy of the Robards Family

    In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, guilt does not stay buried. It festers beneath crowns and costumes, slipping through rehearsed smiles and whispered prayers. A kingdom rots from the inside, not because of the murder alone, but because of the secret that follows it, heavy and impossible to silence. “O, my...

  19. Episode 225: The Murder of Seath Jackson

    In today’s case a similar situation to the one we covered in Episode 224 arose in central Florida in the Spring of 2011, but this time with a 21st century twist. The teens exhibited the same type of behavior we saw in 1965 in Tucson but this time social media was present to fan the flames of an…

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  20. Episode 224: Alleen Rowe and Gretchen and Wendy Fritz | The Pied Piper of Tucson

    By the summer of 1965 three teenage girls had gone missing from Tucson, AZ. When the truth would finally come to light the members of the community would be forced to question everything they knew to be true…and also what their children had been up to. Join me as I tell John the cases of Alleen...

  21. Episode 223: Nancy DePriest | Austin's Pizza Hut Murder

    The city of Austin found itself in a predicament in late 1988. A horrific crime was committed against a young mother in broad daylight, in a well known establishment on a busy street. The unsolved crime would largely impact the city’s reputation for having the lowest crime rate of all of Texas’s...

  22. Episode 222: The Candice Fonagy Story | The Courage of Conviction

    On Halloween night of 1992 something happened that divided the small farming town of Kipling, Saskatchewan. A young single mother accused the town’s well respected doctor of sexual assault while under his care. Wanting to save his reputation, the doctor took a blood test to prove his DNA was not…

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  23. Episode 221: The Grossman/Jenkins Family

    In today's case we have an entire family at the center of our story and theirs is one of love, good times, and wealth but when the good times stop rolling tragedy strikes. Join me as I tell John the case of the Grossman/Jenkins Family. Sponsors: Quince Quince.com/crimecouple Sources:...

  24. Episode 220: The Ewell Family | One by one

    The Ewell family celebrated Easter weekend together at their beach house in Pajaro Dunes, CA. They spent those days together playing tennis and walking on the beach, their vacation home echoing with warmth and familiarity. The family of four had no clue that those beautiful moments they shared…

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  25. Episode 219: The Murder of Patricia Ann Ross

    On December 11, 1974 Patricia Ann Ross had a hot date, or at least one that she hoped would be. Unfortunately, she would never find out because as she got ready to go out that night she was brutally attacked in her apartment. Join me as I tell John the case of Annie Greenthings. Sponsors: Quince...

  26. Episode 218: Nacole Smith and Betty Brown | A Monster in Atlanta

    In 1995, the Campbellton Road neighborhood of southwest Atlanta was rocked by the brutal murder of 14 year old Nacole Smith. The crime would haunt the community for decades. Nearly ten years later, a young girl in nearby East Point survived a horrific attack with unsettling echoes of Nacole’s…

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  27. Episode 217: Daniel Morcombe | The Missing Minutes

    On December 7, 2003, 13-year-old Daniel Morcombe decided to spend his Sunday shopping at the Sunshine Plaza, hoping to find Christmas gifts for his family. To get there, he would need to take a 20-minute bus ride. As he waited for the bus, unaware that it had broken down, Daniel could never have...

  28. Episode 216: Listener Stories | Part IX

    Join us for our ninth installment of listener stories!

  29. Episode 215: The Murder of Pamela Candelario

    On the morning of January 16, 2014 a man was found yelling out for help on the sidewalk outside of his home in Walsenburg, CO. He had a traumatic brain injury and his wife had been murdered. After looking into the couple's family history the Colorado Bureau of Investigation discovered there were...

  30. Episode 214: The Murder of Mary Lou Arruda | The Devil in Massachusetts

    On September 8, 1978 15 year old Raynham, MA resident, Mary Lou Arruda, was kidnapped while riding her bike to her friends house on the first friday of the new school year. Could her disappearance have had something to do with the fact that she grew up in the middle of what paranormal…

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  31. Introducing: CRIME HOUSE DAILY

    Crime doesn’t take a day off. And neither does Crime House Daily. Hosted by self-defense instructor and advocate for victims, Katie Ring, Crime House Daily is coming to you twice every weekday, covering the biggest crime stories as they unfold. Morning episodes give you the need-to-know. The…

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  32. Episode 213: Sonya Ivanoff | Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

    In August of 2003 Sonya Ivanoff went missing after parting ways with her best friend and roommate. Within hours of being reported missing her body was found in a remote old mining road in Nome, Alaska. Police were shocked by the lack of evidence at the scene. It made them wonder if their killer…

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  33. Episode 212: Retha Stratton | The Cheerleader Stalker

    In the sleepy Fort Worth enclave of River Oaks football, like in all Texas towns, was king. The energy surrounding Friday nights under the stadium lights was electric. Football wasn’t just a game, it was a way of life. The players were hometown heroes, the cheerleaders their shining counterparts,...

  34. Episode 211: Dan O'Connell and James Ellison | The Deaths at the Funeral Home

    Hudson, Wisconsin is a sleepy, quiet community bordering the St. Croix river. In 2002, as the rest of the country adjusted to the growing crime rates of the 21st century Hudson locked itself away in its tight northwest corner of the state. Everyone truly knew everyone and daily interactions…

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  35. Episode 210: The Murder of Katrina Smith

    In late October of 2012 the sudden disappearance of Katrina Smith left an Illinois community reeling. As the days went on the search for her revealed troubling clues as to what had happened to her. Detectives in this case were confronted with many bizarre circumstances and possible suspects, but…

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  36. Episode 209: The Murder of Barbara Jean Horn

    In the late afternoon of July 12, 1988 the neighborhood search for four year old Barbara Jean Horn would end abruptly after the girl’s body was discovered completely washed and nude in a television box just over a quarter of a mile from her home. The hunt for the man that committed the horrific...

  37. Episode 208: The Eastburn Family Murders | A Chance Encounter

    In the second part of our two part series on the Eastburn family we will cover the suspect and the subsequent court hearings that will follow. Please be advised that this episode contains sexual assault and crimes against children. Sponsors: Greenlight Start your risk free greenlight trial today…

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  38. Episode 207: The Eastburn Family Murders | Discovery

    On Mother's Day 1985, a call came into the Cumberland County Sheriff's Department that neighbors had not seen a mother of three, nor her three children in days. When they had gone to check on the welfare of the family, they could hear the youngest of the daughters crying. When they had looked...

  39. Episode 206: Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman | Solved

    The history of Craig County Oklahoma is filled with stories of sadness and chaos. Today we will be discussing another time that blood was spilled on the dirt of Craig County, but this time there was no massive conflict or war, this was an entirely different kind of modern tragedy for two families...

  40. Episode 205: The Murder of Cindy Thompson

    On a cold February night in Pontiac Michigan the dream an expecting mother would have to one day hold her son would be ripped from her when she was brutally murdered in her bedroom. The suspects would be plentiful because many had the opportunity, but this case would come down to who had the…

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  41. Episode 204: The Murder of Kim Dorsey

    In Jacksonville, FL a shocking discovery was made in the early morning hours of October 28, 2012. A husband returned home from work to find his wife dead in their bedroom. The crimes against her were brutal and the suspects were plentiful, including the husband himself. Sources:...

  42. Introducing: Clues with Morgan Absher & Kaelyn Moore

    Join hosts Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore as they take you deep into the world of the most notorious crimes ever — where a single clue can crack a case wide open. From shocking murders to serial killers, Clues dives into all the forensic details and brilliant sleuthing of the world's most…

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  43. Episode 203: Rozanne Gailiunas | A Texas Tragedy

    In October of 1983 Detectives were stumped by the brutal murder of 33 year old Rozanne Gailiunas. I would take years of drama, another murder attempt, and loss to bring this case to a close. And trust us, you will not see this twist coming... Hello Everyone! We still are releasing our old Patreon...

  44. Episode 202: The Crimes of Mr. Cruel

    ** We are releasing a past patreon episode in place of a new episode as promised. Pray for us as we are deep in the newborn trenches** The crimes of the man who was given the moniker of Mr. Cruel have been emblazoned in the minds of the residents of the greater Melbourne area for almost four...

  45. Episode 201: Richard Carno | Untold Devastation

    During a bitterly cold day on January 30, 2002 a man was witnessed by multiple people running for his life while his hands were restrained with duct tape. Unfortunately, no one called the police. The following day he was found murdered in a car on the busy Las Vegas Blvd. Join me as I tell John...

  46. Episode 200: The Eastside Killer | Part II

    In the summer of 1990 the bar scene of Bellevue Washington was being stalked by a sadistic killer. Join me for part two of our two part episode as I tell John how this monster was caught. Sources: https://law.justia.com/cases/washington/supreme-court/1994/60673-1-1.html...

  47. Episode 200: The Eastside Killer | Part I

    In the summer of 1990 the bar scene of Bellevue Washington was being stalked by a sadistic killer. Join me for part one of our two part episode as I tell John just what this monster did. (Part two will be released on Tuesday). Sources:...

  48. Episode 199: Joseph Smedley | Beneath the Blood Moon

    In late September of 2015 Joseph Smedley was reported missing from the off campus house he shared with his fraternity brothers. The investigation that will follow will make you question everything except for the dedication and commitment his sister had to get answers for her little brother....

  49. Introducing: CRIME HOUSE TRUE CRIME STORIES

    Crime House True Crime Stories is the ultimate destination for true crime fans. Every episode features two notorious cases from that week in crime history, tied by a common theme like infamous serial killers, mysterious disappearances, tragic murders, and more. Every Monday, uncover the full...

  50. Episode 198: Cathy Krauseneck | The Brighton Axe Murder

    On February 19, 1982 Jim Krauseneck came home to his Brighton, NY residence to find his wife brutally murdered and his three year old daughter alive within the chaos. It would take forty years for a trial to hopefully bring justice to the family of Cathy Krauseneck. Join me as I tell John this...

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Join married couple Kay and John as they cover some of the lesser known true crime cases. In this bi-weekly podcast, Kay presents the case to both the audience and John at the same time, so they can react together. We pride ourselves on the research we conduct and the respect we show to victims. We hope you enjoy!

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